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Two large tornadoes struck Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, damaging or destroying a large number of aircraft including at least two Douglas C-54 Skymasters, a Douglas C-47 Skytrain, and many Boeing B-29 Superfortresses stored from World War II. In the first storm, "54 aircraft were destroyed, including 17 C-54 transports valued ...
On 5 October 2009, the 3rd CCG was realigned underneath the newly activated 689th Combat Communications Wing, headquartered at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. With this realignment, the group now fell under the Twenty-Fourth Air Force and Air Force Space Command. The 3rd Combat Communications Group inactivated on 30 September 2013.
Nine days later, the wing, its operations group, [13] and support units moved to Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington. However, only its 103d Bombardment Squadron moved to Fairchild with the wing, while its other two bombardment squadrons moved to Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, where they established a combat crew training school for B-26 crews.
WASHINGTON – Search crews recovered 41 bodies from the Potomac River after the collision of a passenger plane and a U.S. Army helicopter killed 67 people in the deadliest aviation disaster in ...
To operate these fighters, it formed three tactical fighter groups, the first of which was the 507th Tactical Fighter Group at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, which was activated in May. [ 2 ] [ 29 ] Tinker was selected because the 937th Military Airlift Group there was slated to lose its Douglas C-124 Globemaster IIs , which were being ...
A timeline of the Washington, D.C., plane crash on Jan. 29 details the moments before and after an American Airlines passenger flight and Army helicopter collided over the Potomac.
In 1942, about five months after the U.S. entered World War II, the War Department created the U.S. Army Military District of Washington to plan for a ground defense of the nation's capital. MDW was headquartered during those years in "temporary" buildings at Gravelly Point, Virginia., near Washington National Airport. It moved to Second Street ...
F-16C from the 121st Fighter Squadron lands at Andrews Air Force Base, April 3, 2012. On February 1, 1952, the 8205th Air Base Squadron was activated as part of the DC ANG. The unit's mission was to receive, maintain, and store equipment as well as provide trained personnel for the soon-to-be formed 231st Airways and Air Communications Squadron ...